Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Java/Things you can do/to do

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Questions:
- 1) Where should we tag {{Portal|Java|Wave.svg}} and/or {{Java (Sun)}} / {{Java Virtual Machine}}: on some or all Java categories, on some or all Java articles?
  - I'll risk an answer to my own question: the Portal template is used on 2,200,000 pages so it should be safe to put its Java incarnation in all Java-related articles, under the See also section. As for the navbox mechanism, it seems to be used extensively by some projects and not at all by others. I think the Java (Sun) navbox is a worthwhile addition to any Java-related article (more than the over-specialized JVM one), right before the Category tags. But I don't think putting any of these 3 templates in remaining categories is worthwile. The cumbersome job of putting the 2 tags, Portal and Java (Sun), in all Java-related articles should be done in combination with the tagging of unaccessed Java-related articles with {{Compu-stub}}. Anyone with another opinion?... -- Alain R 3 4 5
    ^{Techno-Wiki-Geek} 02:00, 1 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- 2) Is there a better way to screen for untagged Java material than the searches suggested under List: in Things you can do?
- 3) What kind of Infoboxes (if any) like {{Infobox software}} should we put in articles?
- 4) What are the merits of using {{Template:Did_you_know}} to get visibility on the main Wikipedia page?
- 5) We need to discuss WPBanner hooks with the Computing project in order to get specific Quality-rating statistics for Java articles:
  - what do you think about that compromise?
  - a) We ask them to add this in their Template:WikiProject Computing:

|tf 5={{{Java|}}}

|TF_5_LINK = Wikipedia:WikiProject Java

|TF_5_NAME = WikiProject Java

|TF_5_NESTED = Java

|TF_5_TEXT = & nbsp;

|TF_5_IMAGE =

|TF_5_QUALITY = yes

|TF_5_IMPORTANCE = no

|TF_5_ASSESSMENT_CAT = Java articles

b) Then we can put this kind of tags in Java-related talk pages and get both our own Importance rating and their Quality rating in the stats matrix:

{{wpbs||1=

}}

c) To that end, I did the first simulated test on Talk:J2EE application, you can see the stats matrix here, it's great!
d) Furthermore, after that we could put the {{Compu-stub}} tag in all Java-related article pages NOT already quality-rated and ask TinucherianBot to auto-assess on the talk pages; that would give us a base Quality rating to start with. -- Alain R 3 4 5
^{Techno-Wiki-Geek} 02:00, 1 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]